In a heart­break­ing farewell for 30-year-old nurse O’delle Lal­man-Bap­tiste—who was kid­napped and mur­dered—rel­a­tives and friends re­mem­bered her as a lov­ing and gen­er­ous per­son dur­ing her fu­ner­al ser­vice.

A heart­felt let­ter penned by her rel­a­tive Su­san Sama­roo-Caezar on be­half of her griev­ing fam­i­ly, friends, and neigh­bours was read dur­ing her eu­lo­gy at St Joseph Ro­man Catholic Church in Bonasse Vil­lage, Ce­dros.

Sama­roo-Caezar read, “We would like to say sor­ry, sor­ry for the way life was tak­en away from you. Sor­ry, we were not there to help you. It shat­ters our hearts be­cause you did not think twice to help some­one or did what was nec­es­sary to save some­one else’s life.” She said they were “all in shock and sick to our stom­achs” by the way she died.